from the wired link in OP “It’s clear that he attempted to go places that he was not authorized to go, which should raise questions for everyone,”

Yeah, it does raise questions for me: is this fog computing...enticing information as bait to bring the hammer down on "leakers" aka whislteblowers? They doing a fast and furious ... information walking?Check this out.. [link to www.wired.com]

"That evidence was first introduced in the case of Jewel v. NSA, brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation last year. In that case, a former AT&T telecommunications technician named Mark Klein submitted a sworn declaration describing how AT&T routed copies of Internet traffic to a secret room in San Francisco controlled by the NSA. Only employees cleared by the NSA were allowed to enter the room. The government has likewise moved to dismiss that case on state secrets grounds. The matter is still pending in the same federal district court in California where the Shubert case is filed.

After Klein’s testimony became public, another whistleblower came forward, this time a former NSA Intelligence Analyst. In January, Russell Tice told Keith Olbermann on MSNBC that “the NSA had access to all Americans’ communications – faxes, phone calls, computer communications. They monitored all communications.”" ..... [link to washingtonindependent.com]

Someone on the news was asking how is Snowden a whistleblower? I am beginning to wonder the same.

They failed to stop a Chinese cyber-attack where the Chinese stole every military secret of the U.S. including new weapon and vehicle designs as well as missile defenses.

U.S. Army, NSA, CIA, Dell and Booz never knew that Snowden didn't even finish high school and his resume was false.

Snowden accessed data that was well beyond the scope of his "need to know" and his computer level of access.

Snowden was able to smuggle out highly classified data by plugging in a thumb-drive in his workstation computer.

Snowden took 4 laptops full of classified data to Hong Kong.

Defense contractors were paying Snowden $120,000 a year with U.S. taxes yet this wasn't enough to keep him silent.

Snowden is a Millennial kid. This means that because of the Internet in which he can look up any information, listen to any song, watch anything, play any game immediately and free -- he is impatient and rude. The Chinese call Millennial kids Little Kings. Because Snowden plays video games all the time, he is a little socially awkward, has a false sense of self-confidence and thinks he's always the hero. He's a Monster Kid.

U.S. citizens are so disgruntled that there aren't enough jobs and they aren't being paid what they are worth, that they see this Snowden thing as a way to lash out at the government that ignores them. So they raise up Snowden as a hero just because he is trying to embarrass Obama and the government. I get that, I really do.

But what you don't get is that the U.S. is going to be like Honduras soon. 20 murders every day in every split territory.

And China's going to be the world super power. China, who banned time travel, Winnie the Pooh and Magic!